Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-06
THE LABOR WORLD.
Al INTERESTING RESUME or THE DOINGS
IN INDUSTRIAL CENTRES.
I,,s, from Trade, Railway, Manufacturing and
Labr GrcleS-BuSneSS Active and
Prospects ught-GOmmsreial
News and General Notes.


one hundred railroads whose gro 5 earn
ING for January were 2ll million dollars as
,r,in>t ~ millions for the same month
List YEAR. The Bank Exchanges for So
cities exhibit an increase last week over
the same week last year. For every SCI
worth ut business last year the same week,
- worth WIS tGauSacled this year. For
every - failures up 20 this date last year,
there have been II failures this year, and
for every - men who struck up to this
date last year, l00 have struck this wear.
European war rumorS, German elections,
gold exports and other minor causes have
made stock Spcculations dull. The new
York surplus reserve is decliningan loans
are increasing.
The railroad managers are making every
poS>,ble effort to obey the Interstate Com,
mrrce law, hut for the present the business
ON con of the uncertainty of freight
rates. There is great activity in railroad
construction.
IN COMMERCIAL CHANNELS
business Is Of moderate proportions owing
t. the season All manufacturing interests
speak encouraGingly.
For every . bushels OF wheat exported
last season - bushels were exported this
season. coru 26 bushels to l.; Hour 3 bar
rrl~ To d barrels. The total stuck of Suglr
M the principal countries Is l,&n9, lT9 tons
ls,inSt l,2l~,777 tons nov.
TIN, pry GnndS trade iSactive ut Boston,
New York and Philadelphia. For every
80 worth of dry goods thrown on the mar
Bet mp to this date last year, S2i worth
Lur hrcu thrown on this year. All the
n.lnyIrS aud mills north and south are
IU-"g than last year.
Trade prospects continue very favorable.
Consumption continues heavy and pro-
dl.t,,r capacity in all directions Is crowd
Iu, ahead. Orders are not rrowdiug iu
urltr 80 t.Et Tor IRON, steel, lumber, etc,
bat o COOL healthy business Is being doue
amt Jhr managers OF the great industrial
railroad and business enterprises OF the
country arr all pleased at the Iesults at
tanned ~ tar this year and the prospects for
the neat few mOnthS.
EusupEAN TEXTILE MANUFACTURES,
especially the German manufacturers, have
found how important it il to visit this
country aud study Il demands. At this
time there are well qualified representa-
tlyr> travelling throughout the country for
European concerns engaged in the manu-
Ilrturr ui wuoleu goods, plush, knit UNI
drrwrtr. fancy KNIT goods and dress goods.
American textile goods manufacturers will
...t .,rf1 fht1 firm II pAp,n.flflDns
they will find agents ot foreign houses in
every nook and corner, and these goods
splllu. lower than theirs, perhaps. Then
the Europeans are building u strong and
broad foundation of technical schools, where
vuuu- mechanics are turned out and fitted
Tor % great variety Of mechanical employ
mrntS. American textile manufacturers
are making rommCndIble Roadway, but
thry rely largely on foreign labor. Our
machinery, il being Improved faster and
cost al production Is declining, but the
special skill OF foreigners Is advancing n
developing rapidly, and will give the Eu-
ropetns.a permanent advantage i'm cOmpe-
tltion with us. Last year twelve Berlin
houses We're represented IN this country.
Paris houses are much more widely repre-
Srntrl than il supposed. Other cities have
taken the cue, audt immigration will in
crease.
Ouc of the features of the labor move
mrnJ during the past live years has been
the removal of manufacturing concerns
from the cities of Massachusetts, to small
tnNn,in Maine and New Hampshire. Lynn,
Ernytou and HaverhIll are all losing. while
the smaller country towns are gaining.
Rents in the country are cheaper, wages
anil living lower. These ADVANTAGES over
balance freight interest and travel. The
Chicago lumber merchants have received
neatly double the quantity Of lumber this
yrlr than last. Large quantities at Cana
diam lumber will he imported. The mills
OBJ the I nited Kingdom are working mp a
scheme 10 nrind wheat into Hour in India
on uu extensive scale IN order to save
igyl-utS.
MAKERS on MINING MACHINERY,
hplrmlir pumps. ore crushers, and of all
machinery used in gold, silver, copper and
coal mining. are buster at this time than
they have been for many years. The out
put OF GOLD and silver X increasing. The
production of iron ore will he increased 30
per rrlt this wear ~ against lSSJ, and the
general demand for machinery will exceed
that OF uny former year. Wages have been
Very luw, hut an advance IL regarded as
pgrh,hIc On account of the extent III the
organizations which have been quietly
bnou-ht about through the Knights chiefly.
40 uu time have ~ many manufacturing
enterprises been projected - ut this time
tU- ROVER almost every branch Of mlnutIc
turu. Electric light enterprises are
s]puuging up by the score. Material Ter
wllrr works aud gpS works and pipe ma
trruu col al kinds ~ in active demand.
Several news friedrich works are to be
started mi, season. Several ~briCkyardS are
q" %. started M the larger cities between
Boston and Chicago 10 meet the expected
hes demand.
Several strikes al messenger boys have
taken place in New York city. The boys
are paid from - ~ to s. per week, and NJ
Is >trI tine district companies make % u
tIy ont OF them. The boys have To WORK
fifteen days - a stretch and from fourteen
o-.,,urr,n hours a pay. For overtime
they trr paid - cents an hour. Ii they De
TEN minutes late they are dOcked three
aolrr. o. "a hoy goes to the wrong house
Boz hes Jp loSe iU cents, and IL absent ON
saturday. sunday or Monday he Is fined
W'NiEtdly's pay.
IHF KNIGHTS OF LABOR MOVEMENT
is PROGRESSING steadily in the Southern
N''", Richmond, Va, alone has twenty
'A .n-I assemblies which meet every week,
h~>mtr- two district assemblies which meet
twice % mnuth. There are more assemblies
being organized al the present time III the
Southern States thaa in any other section
oil lu" country.
'~hutt1unogl is full of idle carpenters
brought there by fraudulent advertise
mrHi~. Two thousand painters OF Chicago
nave decided to work eight hours only a.
'T March I, and not to work with non
uulou men.
The nttsburg bricklayCTs have agreed
10 work mlne h0uis. The puddlers are all
I>ruS>lug the changes To he made IN the
July sale Of wages. Pittsburg will soon
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